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” mistaking abstract models for reality (Mandelbrot & Taleb 2009). Another failure arises in the modelling of the economics of the … improvement comes from realism (Colignatus 2007). Economics as a science suffers from bad math and the maltreatment of its … economics are advised to write their parliament in support of that enquiry. …
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are at all-time highs, and rising. How did average income in the world move from $3 to $30 a day? Economics mattered in … shaping the pattern but to understand it economists must know the history and historians must know the economics. Material …
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Not only the gamescom fair in Cologne and the games convention fair in Leipzig have recently shown that the often ridiculed games industry (PC, console and mobile gaming) has long since matured into a serious economic sector on a par with the film industry. Since the days of TV games the gaming...
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This paper has as objective to show the relationship between the Entrepreneurship and Economics and in this work we … relationship between Entrepreneurship and Economics is and will be always strong on measure that entrepreneurship is important to …
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economics. It places behavioral economics, experimental economics, evolutionary economics, ecological economics, new … institutional economics, agent-based computational economics and post-autistic economics vis-à-vis the classical and the … neoclassical economics. It concludes that we may expect a synthesis of all these strands of economic thinking in the near future …
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Economic development in many ways depends on the level of human capital in the national economy, including that of economists. Market reforms in the former Soviet Bloc urged drastic changes in economic curriculum necessary to prepare the next generation of economic leaders. This paper states...
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Economics does not need a scientific revolution. Economics needs accurate measurements according to high standards of …
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This paper focuses on induction, because the supposed weaknesses of that process are the main reason for favouring falsificationism, which plays an important part in scientific methodology generally; the paper is part of a wider study of economic methodology. The standard objections to, and...
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Sir Isaiah Berlin, in his 1958 essay and inaugural lecture, "Two Concepts of Liberty," expands on the ideals of liberty that were synthesized and inculcated by earlier political philosophers. The essay initiates and details an outline of an idealized liberty with two distinct branches: positive...
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This article suggests that the reform of economic instruction in the Former Soviet Union should focus on both learning and action. The incorporation of mathematical methods into the new economic curriculum will occur based on close cooperation among mathematicians and economists. The new...
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